Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea.
Department of Nursing, Daejeon University, Daejeon 34520, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 May 28;18(11):5804. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18115804.
The availability of a wide range of online health-related information on the internet has made it an increasingly popular source of health information, particularly for people in their 20s. This study aimed to explore possible multistep and indirect pathways of association between e-health literacy and health-promoting behaviors through social media use for health information, online health information-seeking behaviors, and self-care agency among nursing students. The study included 558 nursing students from three different universities in South Korea. Data were collected using structured questionnaires from 2 August to 29 August, 2019. The results show that e-health literacy had a significant direct effect on health-promoting behaviors through the three mediators. Moreover, the overall model explained 46% of the total variance in health-promoting behaviors. Based on these findings, it is necessary to introduce interventions that improve e-health literacy and develop a strategy to promote healthy behaviors. It is also necessary to develop programs to improve e-health literacy competency in nursing students. Moreover, health interventions that improve health-promoting behaviors should be developed, and research to evaluate the effect of the interventions should be conducted.
互联网上提供了广泛的在线健康相关信息，这使得它成为越来越受欢迎的健康信息来源，特别是对于 20 多岁的人来说。本研究旨在探索通过社交媒体使用进行健康信息、在线健康信息搜索行为和自我保健代理来探索电子健康素养与促进健康行为之间可能存在的多步骤和间接途径，参与者为来自韩国三所不同大学的 558 名护理专业学生。2019 年 8 月 2 日至 29 日，通过结构问卷收集数据。结果表明，电子健康素养通过这三个中介对促进健康行为有显著的直接影响。此外，总体模型解释了促进健康行为的总方差的 46%。基于这些发现，有必要引入提高电子健康素养的干预措施，并制定促进健康行为的策略。有必要在护理学生中开展提高电子健康素养能力的项目。此外，应开发改善促进健康行为的健康干预措施，并开展评估干预效果的研究。
